Question 4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research,planning and evaluation stages?

In finishing our media product we used many different types of technological equipment. One thing we used was a online social network website called Facebook. We used Facebook to set up an online group where we could invite friends that we thought would suit the genre and ask them what they think about our progress as it went on, This was very useful for us because we would receive positive and negative feedback from our target audience which would allow us to find where we are going wrong and work on the matter.
Another online website we use was the website 'Youtube'. We used this mostly for research and planning purposes, for example our genre was indie music so we could go on the website use and look at the many famous indie videos that are out there,then we would write about them in detail so we can understand as much as we can about indie music videos and what makes them original and what we could do to make our video as interesting to the target audience as we could. Overall YouTube was very useful and helpful because it gave us an idea about what sort of filming we will have to be doing, for example a low-fi video with not loads of differences cuts. It also helped us with the location of our video, For example a lot of the indie music videos we watched the charters in the video's were mostly outside, therefor although some of our scenes are inside the majority of it is outside.
Another thing we used to construct our final product was Premiere Pro. This it what me and my group used the most out of everything we used. The reason for this is because premiere pro is a editing and music software, it allowed us to put all of our cuts and shot onto it off the camera we used, this meant we could put all of our filming that was on the camera onto the software then put it in the order that was right. It also allowed us to cut different parts of the filming we didn't want so lip syncing was done with a lot more ease. Another thing that premier pro allows us to do is we were able to put the song we used underneath the filming clips so when lip syncing we could tell easily if the people we used in our video were to slow or fast then work on that problem. Overall premier pro was extremely helpful and could not of made the video without it.

Another thing that we used what something called 'Adobe Photoshop' . This was very useful with our print work as many pictures we took had to be edited and extra detail such as colourcast had to be added to make the pictures relate to our genre.
One other thing that i used was the website blogger which is what i use every lesson in media. It is like an online folder where you can keep all you course work. This makes it a lot more helpful cause the risk of loosing work on blogger is very small. Also the teacher and others can see how much i have learnt and progressed since the start of the course and task.
One way in which my final media product would of been improved is if i had a access to a HD camera. Me and my group used a normal Nikon D60 DSLR camera and i think that if we used a HD camera our vidoe would of just looked more polished because of the quality of the camera if far greater.
Throughout my final product i used media 2.0 to help me in many ways, For example i used Facebook to get audience view on certain things such as my print work and moodboard. The reason i did this is because i wanted my print work to suit my final media product as much as i could so i thought getting the audiences views would make it easy for me and would let me know if i missed any important information or detail out.